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Nora Peters

Documentation: questioning techniques for kids

What did you do? What was that called? What processes did you use? What parts of the machine, etc.?

What was the hardest part? What was the easiest part? What would you do differently?

With the younger kids, prompt as they go along, but with older kids, create a poster with questions and a video making station

Everybody Wins program from reading is Fundamental

http://www.rifpittsburgh.org/Everybody-Wins-

Picture Book Maker Craft Project

Think about the intention behind the maker activity? What do you want the students to pick up or walk away with?

Put a sticker in the book with a maker prompt and advertise! Mark these books with a sticker so that kids/parents know

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https://www.sohacks.com/
Love that this girl is wearing a shirt that says "fearless"
She is currently the CEO of Apps for Aptitude which is a non-profit that focuses on providing free educational opportunities to high school students. (and she's also a senior in high school. no bigs)
- Allow teams to ensure collaboration on a specific project
- The trial and error involved in coding provides opportunities for mentos to offer guidance
- Hackathons have opportunities for students to take classes that align with their individual learning style
- Practice public speaking
Find your inner-entrepenuer

Steps to have a hackathon
1. Pick a date and venue
space for independent work, workshops, presentation spaces
2. Create a sign up page
3. Spread the word with all types of media
4. Have mentors teach classes
5. Buy food and prizes
6. SWAG - Stuff We All Get
7. Get judges and a keynote speaker

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Presentation:
slideshare.net/cindyroyal
Cindy Royal- Director of Media Innovation Lab at Texas State University

"Taxonomy of Digital:" Future (virtual, immersive, AI, augmented, IoT) and Innovation (entrepreneurship, empathy, crowd-sourcing, prototyping) are at the top.

New mindset needed around products (websites, apps, interactive storytelling), platforms (social networks, blogs), and data (provides the basis for products and platforms)

digitalcurriculum.cindyroyal.net - has digital curriculum inventory to see if you are covering your bases for where jobs are headed

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Best idea to improve education in the state of TX
education should be the main priority
Learning Workshops in the mornings
- Opportunities for authentic involvement
- Encourage intergenerational learning
- Preparing for 21st centuery careers
- things kids are passionate about
- Provide opportunity for all students
- boost learner agency
- Rather Family and Rice University support
- Applications for public and for high school students to lead workshops
- Every student signed up for workshops
7 categories (sports, business, etc.)
30 minutes 7:20 - 7:50
each week new workshops
Elementary Student Leadership Group - 4th/5th grade students (organize materials, greet members, serve as workshop assistants)
District teachers, community members, administrators, high school students
Lake Dallas - Katie Landaverde

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Deeper with Data: Evaluating SEL Implementation

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Deeper with Data: Evaluating SEL Implementation

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4 goal areas, 0-4 point continuum
Goal 1 - Empowering Campus Leadership
Goal 2 - Coordination with Family and Community Partners
Goal 3 - Coordination with Climate and Pedagogy
Goal 4 - Explicit SEL Instruction

Welcoming ritual
Hand signals
"People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story""
SEL Tri-level implementation rubric

Parker Palmer - Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worth of the Human Spirit
"We must judge ourselves by a higher standard than effectiveness, the standards is called faithfulness"
Changed from "rubric" to "survey"
Document can help with goal setting.
Examine trust and relationships
Measuring how students and teachers are feeling at school
The survey is meant to be at the campus level (not necessarily students)
Students rated on personal development skills (https://www.austinisd.org/sites/default/files/dre-surveys/rb/16.17_The_Properties_of_Students_Personal_Development_Skills_Report_Card_Ratings.pdf)
Notice - wonder system
Second Step - elementary and middle school
School Connect at the High School
CASEL - addresses skill acquisition
Students have a hard time answering questions about their own SEL skills
AISD student climate survey gets at the student growth
The climate survey asks things about time as opposed to ease (https://www.austinisd.org/dre/surveys/2016-2017/2016-2017-student-climate-survey)

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The Power of a Problems-Led Engineering Program- Kim

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The Power of a Problems-Led Engineering Program- Kim

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Companies are fighting each other for good talent.  It is up to companies to let educators know what they are looking for.

We need more engineers.

Speaker from Dyson Foundation: They partner with schools to take apart and put back together vacuums.

This presentation is turning into being about vacuums.  I don't know what is happening right now.  This is weird. Am I supposed to buy a Dyson?

Ok back on track:

Develop industry relevant curriculum

Let students drive the brief

Give students independence to make design decisions informed by STEM knowledge

Encourage students to rethink the world around them

Turn ideas into concepts: sketches, prototypes, and model.

Use modern equipment

They have a partnership with Chicago called Engineering Futures.

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Growing an Engaged Education Innovation Community- Kim

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Growing an Engaged Education Innovation Community- Kim

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Presentation at: bit.ly/educommunityresources
Leading Principles of Community

Stakeholders must be leaders in the community

Leaders must have long-term commitment

Community is inclusive of everyone

Community must have continual activities and events

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Young writers & readers program for immigrants and refugees

“When we work with youth at any age, our goal is really to narrow their focus”

Adult writers validating student writing and storytelling

Ensuring young people that their voices and their writing is validated and worth sharing

How can we let our young people’s writing to breathe? And not just stay tucked away in a binder or a folder to be crumpled and tossed out? How can we ensure that our students feel that their writing can have an impact and a purpose?

Student writing shouldn’t be cute-- it deserves to be read

Across cultures, across classrooms

Students should be reading other student voices and seeing that they have the ability to write and be published

Launch a publishing program

Treat all students as REAL writers

Make the students the stakeholders

Create clear writing standards

Teach them about the world of the book publishing industry

Agents, book designers, layouts, etc.

Meet weekly as a “publishing workshop”

Students become the publishers-- make decisions about design, layout

Make your book launch count

Get in touch with local libraries, book stores, etc.

Do a local reading! Have students read their work.

Adults need to listen to younger voices!

Kids need to read kids’ voices in order to gain confidence, believe in themselves, and write more

Create a movement in your school/community

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Why Tech-Enabled Teachers Flee the Classroom

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Why Tech-Enabled Teachers Flee the Classroom

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Jobs in EdTech are moving teachers from the classroom and into the tech industry

Schools need to do a better job of retaining teachers with tech expertise

Factors that drive TECH teachers away from the classroom

They aren’t treated as professionals

“Another professional development workshop on another new teaching framework?”

Work/Pay Ratio is vastly off

For 110% effort, teachers are still paid far less than their private sector counterparts

Demands on teachers don’t match innovation

Teachers are expected to do far more, with far less, and it’s no more obvious than in tech-enabled classrooms

But, really, it’s the paycheck.

Other major draws to leaving classroom

Upward Mobility

Career and salary advances in private sector

K-12 Education can be limiting (exchanging your time for $)

Work/Life Balance

Flexible Hours

Unlimited paid time off

No grading papers on weekends

401Ks and Investing for retirement

Private sectors must compete!

Retirement programs are a sure thing

Median Teacher Salary: $47,000ish; Most CS jobs make double

Most advertised job postings are in the STEM field

Pathways teachers take to go to private sector

Coding Bootcamps

Small career jumps

Taking their skills they get from being a teacher and moving it toward private sector jobs

What can schools do to help teachers to stay?

District/Classroom Connection

Decisions at the district level impact the classroom, how are these communicated?

Empowering educators to make tech decisions

Let teachers decide which tech solution is right

Start with pedagogy and work towards tech

Schools that decide tech first are doomed to fail

Environment Matters

Relaxed dress code

Working environment

Flexible schedules

Parent Teacher Conferences

Long hours and long commutes

How to keep educators happy?

Compensation

The Right Tools

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danah boyd and her magical, wonderful brain

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danah boyd and her magical, wonderful brain

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Kim's question to her: We have a parent/teacher community book club, and your book is our next selection.  When we meet, parents always ask "What's next? What are we supposed to do?"  What is your advice to them?

danah's answer: Parents always panic when their kids are looking at something that they disagree with. They always say "Stop that! Get off of that!" instead of communicating with their kids about what they see. They need to ask their kids "Why do you think they posted that? What do you think about that?" instead of pushing them away by panicking. One thing that parents need to do better is communicate, communicate, communicate.

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Hate Online & In Schools: Building a Tech Resistance

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Hate Online & In Schools: Building a Tech Resistance

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Enormous rise in hate crimes after the election

Anti-bullying statement or policy across school?

How is it implemented? Is it implemented well?

Parental involvement?

What is the implementation process?

OCR provides technical assistance trainings

https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/frontpage/faq/crt-ta.html

Bullying vs. Discrimination vs. Harassment (all types of hate incidents)

“What if it happens online? Outside of school?”

The same legalities will likely still apply

Check your state statutes

https://www.stopbullying.gov/laws/illinois/index.html

#BackDownBully

Only 40-50% of cyberbullying targets know the identity of their bully

Online gaming/chats/instagram

Technology can also be used to combat hate!

Viral videos, students can tell their stories and combat some of that bullying

Back Down Bully Week

Use daily themes to advocate and educate against bullying

https://prepparents.org/

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Can Personalized Learning Replace Testing? 

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VP at ETS https://www.ets.org/k12
Chen/Zuckerburg Initiative
What can we do with assessments to make them more impactful?
Chief Academic Officer for New Classrooms
what is personalized learning?
https://larrycuban.wordpress.com/2018/02/21/spilling-the-beans-on-personalized-learning/
What do we value more? Accountability or comparison to one another?  Do we value a student learning in and of itself?
How do we bring in the elements of personalized learning into standarized testing
demonstrating knowledge
Testing - how do you know they have mastered that skill?
How much credibility does the system have in terms of the quality of the data?
Who is working on measuring creativity and collaboration?
PIZA standardized assessment - collab and problem solving - menu driven action
collaborative problem solving using a video interface - 2 kids are collaborating with each other on a simluation task - ngss standards
simulated avitar to help facilitate

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Presenters from Naperville.
Superintendent - "What is student success?" asked parents, teachers, students
- Build teacher capacity
Curriculum
parents
Communicated the WHY of SEL
1. teacher team
2. administration
3. curriculum - recruit teachers

Tweet SEL successes

Ignite presentation - slides move every 15 seconds
- Create a framework for what is going to be discussed
- Build a sense of community - tell a story in a short period of time
- http//bit.ly/20MXIHS

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https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/notetoself

Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive & Creative Self

https://www.amazon.com/Bored-Brilliant-Spacing-Productive-Creative/dp/1250124956/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1520361285&sr=8-1&keywords=bored+and+brilliant

Being bored→ time for original thinking

“The imagination network”

There is a difference from meditation and letting our minds wander

“Autobiographical planning”

Look at your life, reflect, take note of the highs and lows, make plans to create and reach goals, theories about self, purpose, and why happen when our minds are wandering

When we are so focused on our phones, keyboards, screens, we don’t have this time for boredom

How can we disrupt the way we use our phones and devices?

How much our the phone “activities” adding value to our lives?

Goal-- different tasks every day for how to interact with our phones

Ex: one day, keep phone in pocket, another keep phone in bag

Delete specific apps that are causing compulsions

We shift our attention “every 45 seconds” at work vs. every 3 minutes about a decade ago

When we’re tired, we use our phones more

There is an obsession with productivity rather than DEEP work and focus

Switching phones OFF is not an option! Setting these limits for students might even do them a disservice. Phones can be a wonderful thing\

Bored and Brilliant Challenge

https://www.wnyc.org/series/bored-and-brilliant

We need to think about teaching things that we’ve never had to teach before

Boredom

Eye contact

Responsiveness

FTF conversations

It’s not that digital natives don’t KNOW these things, but these skills are not prioritized

“There’s something about sharing my life selectively that makes my experiences richer”

More and more people are thinking about changing their digital habits

This idea that tech is a force for good is being tested

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https://www.breakoutedu.com/digital/
Google Pixelbook!  New Chromebooks for next year - obsessed
already asked for a quote!  LOL
Immersive learning in action:
lots of collaboration, feedback from students very engaging,
lose track of everything else and don't want to leave class,
Breakout Edu
teach skills through experience
allowing students to get hands dirty
Tools:
Google VR expedition inside the cell - Expeditions
Chromosomes with AR
If see it on YouTube - say "YES" within 30 sec
VR Expeditions - take on field trips to build background knowledge for ELL
AR - integrating into lesson - images to interact with forces of nature - tornado spinning around in the classroom - students could go over the image of a tornado and saw the "eye" of the tornado
AR bringing images into the room
iMotion videos
Digital breakouts - to prepare for a test - take quizlet and put it into breakout - response validation - Google Forms - immediate feedback
Chromebook - Play Store enabled can get Jamobard app

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OMG, 3 kids on the panel that could not be cuter. 1st, 5th, and 11th grade.  Cannot get over it.

What does mindfulness mean to you?
- Take deep breaths
- Being aware of your surroundings and doing finger breathing
- Awareness of yourself and your body and mind. We go into our own little shell and think about ourselves.

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The Paramount Story WranglersFrom Page to Stage: Bringing Students’ Stories to Life 

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The Paramount Story WranglersFrom Page to Stage: Bringing Students’ Stories to Life 

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http://www.austintheatre.org/family-education/literacy-to-life/

Every idea is a good idea

Encourage all brainstorm ideas

Brainstorm, write, revise, publish

Consider using younger elementary (primary stories) for older middle school students to act out for those students

Historical fiction-- character must be someone learned about in school, must be a real setting, character must be dead

***How can genre play into storytelling? Genre units/genre choice

Emotion in stories-- no censorship by emotion!! Some stories make us laugh, some stories make us cry-- no prying, allowing students to be present and express all types of feelings that come into the classroom with them

Empathy and SEL Skills

Create a project where students have to tell a story through the “villain” perspective

There are no villains-- just characters that want different things

Get into the mind of the “villain”

Autobiographical writing

Journaling as inspiration to get stories out, stories that come out more organically as a part of student daily lives

Picture prompt

Present a picture and students can write what they want based on the picture

How did this picture come to be? What happened to make this story happen? Cause/effect studies

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ed week research study -  more teachers using tech for drill, review and practice vs using it for collaboration/research
you do more with technology than what you could do before -
tech can change the way you spend your time
Is tech being purposefully integrated to support our goals
Students created own Kahoot as a presentation tool to quiz other students on their topic
It is difficult to trust students to learn on their own but reflection with students can help that
Differentiation in vocab development
Zinc - bit.ly/zincdemo5
Post articles and have students comment on each others

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Design Immersive & Inclusive Learning Experiences

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Design Immersive & Inclusive Learning Experiences

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Microsoft Teams
Microsoft.teams.com/download

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Staff talent sbow

Grand master flash’s PD plan

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Creative Youth Development: A Movement and Mindset

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Creative Youth Development: A Movement and Mindset

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#CreativeYouthDev

Safety, Asset based, artistic excellence, social capital, youth voice, social justice

Safe environment where students can truly, fully bring themselves and amplify their curriculum

We are NOT filling students with creativity, we are guiding them and bringing their existing creativity out

Core to this work→ strong relationships with peers, with teachers

I Create, I Am, We Connect

Relationships, identity, and the freedom to make

Skills, Self, and Society (similar framework out of Detroit)

“Stories seldom told”

http://saysi.org/uncategorized/say-si-presents-stories-seldom-told-less-than-equal/

Pick a subject that isn’t getting a lot of media attention or focus

http://saysi.org/

http://creativeyouthdevelopment.org/

http://bykids.org/

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Bringing Entrepreneurship to K-12 Academia

APEX Curriculum

Trends: Innovation-driven; inquiry-based; Students will change jobs 15 times in their careers; millennials change jobs 4 times in a decade; creating partnerships in the community

http://www.waukeeapex.org/

CAPS | High Tech High

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"teacher influencer ranks are growing as public schools increasingly adopt all manner of...conflict of interest"

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The Spiderman Principle: Teaching Ethical Hacking

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The Spiderman Principle: Teaching Ethical Hacking

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Gray hat hackers- Believe in making the internet a safer place, so they hack for good.  To find insecurities in the internet and report them to make it better

Spider-Man Principle: With great power comes great responsibility.

Law of Hacking:

Accessing a computer without authorization and obtaining info is a misdemeanor

To facilitate illicit conduct is a felony (ex: gaming misuses to swat)

-Kali Linux- Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking Linux Distribution

-Hackzilla

-Compare teaching hacking to learning karate.  It’s about honor.

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Wrong is Right: Using Conflict to Empower Students

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Wrong is Right: Using Conflict to Empower Students

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Theater classroom/reading enrichment (K-5)

What is WRONG?

Everything that is being experienced around your classroom that does not set students up to win

(giant class sizes, lack of funding, standardized testing, etc.)

Classroom is a blank canvas

Storytelling these kids→ there is a place to go and they are the way to get us there

The students are the hero in this story, they are the heroes in their own learning

Drama-- higher achieving students when it comes to standardized testing

Role play, spontaneous decision-making

What’s RIGHT for students?

Technology. Something they can manipulate

When all is not right→ block, unfriend, easy to manage and control

Escape and control

“It is up to you to knock them out of their numbness”

Students have to be kept on their toes! They have to notice!

Give them safe space-- acknowledge student feelings

Change the environment! Take students outside!

Give students tools

And then… start the conflict

The conflict that you choose should be:

SB: Standards Based

PD: Personality Driven (need to understand what student needs are outside of skill level), what type of student is this, what do they need at this moment and how can I serve them?

OE: Open Ended, students have to be able to make mistakes

Be both their adversary and their advocate

http://creativethinking.net/#sthash.1uteiP6C.dpbs

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Does separating girls in STEM actually do a disservice to our girls? Is there a “girls version” of the “real” STEM we’re offering boys?

Insight #1: Girls are overwhelmingly interested in STEM

74% of middle school girls

We are losing girls in STEM, it continue to fall

Insight #2: Experience with STEM matters

Knowing women in STEM careers, know about career options, go to tech/science meetings, after school STEM programs== increased STEM growth further down the road

Insight #3: Role Models Matter

Insight #4: Inspiring Teachers are Instrumental

73% of hs girls who had a teacher who inspired them said they are more likely to study computing

Middle school-- girls interest in CS goes up, down in HS, and up again in college

What is happening in HS for girls?

“Low floors, high ceiling, wide walls”

Instead of a girl version of a STEM activity

Tech should be gender neutral and accessible to EVERYONE, no matter gender, interest, or experience with tech

Tech tools should grow with students

Tools we give students should be applicable in many different settings

Students can use and invent based on their personalities and levels of interest

Creative tools that can be used in many avenues

65% of today’s students will have careers that don’t exist yet

It’s not about reminding them that they’re a girl and that they can do this, it’s about the subtle nuances so that they can start to see themselves in STEM everywhere

https://littlebits.cc/5-women-stem

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ROX: Ruling Our Experiences

What’s impacting girls’ lives? Relationships? Leadership?

Equip girls with knowledge & skills to live healthy, productive, violence- free lives

20-week empowerment program for girls

Research about complex issues impacting today’s girls

https://rulingourexperiences.com/

The Girl’s Index: survey of over 10000 girls nationwide

“Crisis of confidence”

The ability to separate relationships and social media IS NOT a thing anymore

Social media is integral to girls’ (and all digital native) relationships

Girls’ friendships

The more hours spent on SM, the less girls trust other girls

More time spent on SM, less likely to say they have supportive friends or supportive adults

“Effective educators offset the negative impact by teaching skills, not simply setting limits”

Scaring is not a strategy

Skills necessary

Say no! Know your boundaries, know your limits, understand when it’s time to end the conversation

These skills are necessary FTF and online! The same skills need to be taught in both venues

“Confidence is built through experiences not compliments.”

What are we doing as educators doing to offset the negative effects of social media?

SM isn’t going anywhere-- cutting girls off SM will just cut us off of them

bit.ly/thegirlsindexreport

Learning Expo Booth #423

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https://www.empiricaleducation.com/research-guidelines/

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Partnering with a purpose-- with goals in mind

Talk to University of Ohio Rep-- card about partnerships

Dr. David Delaine - OSU/ Delaine.4@osu.edu

Partner organically with local Chicago organizations and non-profits

http://u.osu.edu/servicelearning/

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What if? Unleashing Possibility Thinking in K-12

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What if? Unleashing Possibility Thinking in K-12

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Big problems don’t always require big solutions

Persistently (unshakeabley) solving problems

Google science fair https://www.googlesciencefair.com/en/

Consider: Is this a form a creative expression?

Are worksheets a form of creative expression?

“Creativity requires more than originality”

Creativity→ blend of originality and meeting task constraints

Has to solve a problem or meet criteria

“Get good at the game of school” but need to offer more task constraints to encourage creative thinking

Stay active between observing the task constraints and think about the most appropriate ways to think and act in new ways

Overplanned Learning Experiences

Specify WHAT, WHEN, HOW and have ideal results in hand

Very little room for creative movement or (Possibility Thinking!)

“Are you going to learn more from solving 12 questions the same way or 1 question 12 ways?”

What is the problem? Why does it matter? What are we going to do about it? What lasting contribution will it make?

Flip a question: what if?

Issue: parents aren’t engaged in my school

What if I haven’t engaged the parents?

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Engaging the Eye: Build Knowledge in Visual Art

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Engaging the Eye: Build Knowledge in Visual Art

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Simple, repeatable questioning technique that guides students through the analysis of a work of art

Builds cultural capital-- broad cultural knowledge, exposure to cultures and traditions

Questioning techniques

30 seconds to notice

What do you see? What do you notice?

What do you wonder? What questions do you have?

Organize-- take a moment to think literally about the work of art to answer some of the wonders/questions

Reveal-- think about metaphor, foreshadowing

Parallel with work you could do with a literary work

Distill

Know

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https://themoth.org/education/resources

Apply for curriculum

Host podcast in Storytelling

Keep in mind principles of storytelling:

Timing/a change that has to take place

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What is it and why should it be a part of the modern learning experience?
- classroom experience does not look very different now than it did in the past.
- Learning experience that allow kids to experience something that is authentic
- real world problem solving opportunities
- engaging, confidence building, retention benefits
- http://u.osu.edu/servicelearning/

How can it be a mutually beneficial partnership?
- Peer mentoring
- Civic engagement
- Research
- Positively impact lives now and in the future
- Fosters social and community responsibility

How does my current role relate?

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How to prepare kids for jobs that don't exist yet- Kim

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How to prepare kids for jobs that don't exist yet- Kim

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-Skills necessary for jobs in the future:

embracing the opportunities that technology presents

CS and programming shortage

collaborative problem-solving

critical thinking

Diversify thought

-⅓ of the jobs are focused in the “creative class” (involve I.P.)

-Fastest growing jobs are service class (ex. Uber)

-Second fastest growing jobs are creative class

Will continue to grow and rise with AI

Lateral thinking

Storytelling with data

-Greatest unmet Need in current workforce- Lack of programming skills & being able to use data to tell a story

-Exposing students to different jobs that they might not even know exist

-What Facebook is looking for in interviews: Being open, moving fast, building social value, focus on impact (and how can you demonstrate it?)

-College degrees are not required for the creative class, but teaching them those characteristics gives them the advantage over other candidates.

-How to screen for "Creativity:" critical thinking and problem-solving. The rise of the "side hustle."  How you spend your free time is how you work through problems in your job.

-72andSunny Playbook- a guide for businesses to how they can partner with their school; available on their website for schools to use to develop partnerships with local businesses

-PBL & cross-curricular problem-solving is important to develop the characteristics that students need.

-Looking at how technology can interact with people to evolve processes

-Using AI to change the social good

-"Tell me about a time you used data to drive a decision."

Most important take-aways from panel members:
1) Collaboration, problem-solving, and grit
2) Figure out how to connect with different industries to figure out where they are headed and learn about the "creative class."
3) Embrace technology and the digital age; think about the intersection between automation and the human interaction

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Jobs that are available in the future that don't exist now?

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Jobs that are available in the future that don't exist now?

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Facebook seeks the following with new employees:
Collaborating
Problem solving
Data manipulation
tell a story through data
Student:
Organization is so important
Giving students the opportunity to work on a "real case" - creating a campaign
Does everyone need a collage degree? FB - skills based company
look to hire people who align with mission - to build and dig deep to bring the world together - building community and bringing people together
Coding skills
USE DATA TO TELL A STORY
FOCUS ON IMPACT, STRENGTHS AND SKILLS
Jobs in the future - design
Experience Design
Looking at how technology and people work together - design different ways to check in to a conference, flight, etc.
Interview
Ethics and technology AI (Artificial Intelligence
Technology can't do the "human touch"
Tell me a time when you've used data to influence something
Give me an example of when you've used data for x, y, z

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https://www.projunicorn.org/
Engage2Learn - https://engage2learn.org/
Project Unicorn does not endorse a specific product or data standard but instead is an educational advocacy initiative dedicated to the secure, controlled interchange of data

Different types of data:
Identity Management - authentication & Authorization
Embedded Applications - handing off users from one app to another
Basic user information - rostering
Content portability - assessment items, pieces of curriculum,
Student Outcomes Data - attendance, behavior, grades, assessment results,
Usage Data - clickstream, sessions

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The Need for Students to “Dream Differently” - Dr. Vince Bertram - Sheri

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The Need for Students to “Dream Differently” - Dr. Vince Bertram - Sheri

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1 - Start early subjects are integrated across the curriculum (math, etc)

Skills matter - critical thinking, problem solving,

career counseling - how do we counsel our students

2 - Eliminate barriers to access - equity - boys/girls, low income, etc

3 - Transform teaching build confidence in teachers to deliver it - no learning is being created if you can answer all questions students ask

Build a network - connect students to internships

College is a pathway to a great career

Have to give students candid advice about what the future holds for them

People get hired because they have skills

Be smart about following their passion - things that drive them but they have to have skills if someone will pay you for it

What skills do you have that will allow you to have a great career?

Collaboration

Rethink mission and connect students to that mission

Connect skills and passion - that’s why we have to make those connections now in K-12

Connecting math to everything and then help them to see that math and science are tools to solve problems

Gaps that Chevron sees - 1 - ensuring a diverse workforce - underrepresented minorities and girls

Critical thinking

Collaboration

Recruiters - give us an example of leadership, what challenges have you faced and how have you overcome them?  Skills for success - types of things they’re looking for

Chevron partners with schools

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Taking Your Educational Videos to the Next Level- Kim

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Taking Your Educational Videos to the Next Level- Kim

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Michael Harrison (socratica), Miriam Nielsen (zentouro), Jabril Ashe (SEFDStuff)

Have a story with a beginning, middle, and end; have it planned before you start filming

A7S2 Camera, Sony A7000, or iPhone- Don’t start with expensive gear

3-point lighting

Back Light- Low intensity (must use diffusion)

Key Light- Brightest (45 degree angle to camera)

Fill Light- Medium intensity (50-75% of key light)

Camera Positioned at eye level

If you don’t have 3 lights, bounce the light off of white walls or white posterboard- Utilize natural light

Shallow Depth of Field- Available on some phones, explore it!  Most of the time, set the Aperture to 4

Rule of Thirds

Put subject of shot on one of the intersection vertices of a tic-tac-toe board, never in the middle

Adding text on those vertices works the same way.  Person on one vertex and text on the other

180 Degree Rule

Two people on the same plane, 3 cameras at different angles

Secondary Audio

Record audio separately

This is where you want to spend the money, not on the camera

Microphones

Lavaliers (Lavs)- pin on your body somewhere

“Handheld mics” (Condenser, Dynamic)

Shotgun Mics- filming outside and want the best sound possible

Recorders

Zoom 4hn

Tascam

Sound Devices (Mix Pre-3) ***Regulates volume and let’s you block out certain frequencies like planes; set limiter to 80Hz

Camera

Editing

Audacity (free)

Audition (Adobe)

Garage Band (free)

Use editing for noise reduction and loudness leveling (-18 lufs is ethical for youtube, but still pretty quiet)

3 Parts to Sound- 1 video track, 3 audio tracks (dialogue, sfx, music)

Sound Design

Including sound effects and music for a more immersive experience

Editing

VFX

Motion Graphics

Free Software

Blender- designed for 3D animation, heavy learning curve for that

HitFilm Express- has youtube channel that shows users how to use it

DiVinci Resolve- has good color correcting embedded

Professional Software

Adobe Premiere

Always use captions

How to get people to watch your videos- creating a worldwide audience

3-ates Tactic:

Clickbait- Most effective way to get viewers; if it’s good, people won’t know they’re being clickbaited

Making your thumbnails, tags, and titles as clickable as possible.  Critical for search engine optimization (SEO)

Collaborate- Great way to grow your channel and content

If you can find a good collaboration when their channel is small, you can have a great partnership if it gets big

Innovate

Create something that’s unseen

“We didn’t do anything new, we just did it differently.”

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What If?  Unleashing the Possibility Thinking in K-12 - Sheri

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What If?  Unleashing the Possibility Thinking in K-12 - Sheri

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Big problems don’t always require big solutions

Possibility Thinking - creative imaginative vehicle to move from the way things currently are to making them the way they should be

Water filtration devices to provide something for students in need

Possibility Thinking and Creative Expression

Creativity requires more than originality

Blend between originality and meeting task constraints

Don’t fixate on task constraints that all creativity disappear

Don’t try to be so original that you forget task constraints

Overplanned Learning Experience (Beghetto, WHAT IF?  ASCD)

http://inservice.ascd.org/are-we-over-planning-students-learning-experiences/

Identify a challenge or ill defined problem that you’re wrestling with?

Integration

Assumption flip - we can’t get parents engaged?